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Local Community News ~ Proudly Independent Friday, 1 April 2022
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Remembering the Manusu Brothers By Mick BIRTLES EACH April, as ANZAC Day approaches, the nation reflects with a sense of sorrow on the sacrifices made in war. For some families the loss is almost unthinkable and that is how it was for the Manusu family of Bowraville during the Second World War. At the time war broke out there were seven children in this family. Percy Manusu, the third oldest, would enlist in 1940 and two of his brothers, Perry, the second eldest, and Guy, the fifth born, enlisted together six months later. Although all three Manusu boys would serve in the Middle East, they were spared the worst of it and their Brigade, the 16th, headed back south when Japan entered the war. After a brief stint defending Port Moresby, the 2/1st Battalion, with Perry and CONTINUED Page 3
q Brad D’Elboux of Nambucca Heads RSL sub-Branch, Todd Vercoe of Bowraville RSL sub-Branch, Mr Wayne Mason OAM of Stuart Point RSL sub-Branch and Mr John Kent OAM of Nambucca Heads RSL sub-Branch present Miss Pauline Manusu with replicas of her uncles’ WW2 medals.
Sewage Concerns By Rachel MCGREGORALLEN
THE NAMBUCCA Valley Council informed the community on Thursday
24 March 2022 that the Nambucca River was not safe for swimming owing to
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sewage overflow. Council advised against swimming until the flood
waters had receded. The incident was reported to the Environmental
Protection Authority (EPA).
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